RGP Maker 2000 help

Ghost Kitty · 03-28-2005, 03:54 PM

I am trying to download RGP Maker 2000 in order to start working on a game I do not want to tell you about (yet

) but whenever I attempt to run it, it says: "Install English RTP"

Whats that?

Brooser · 04-16-2005, 05:19 PM

Oh lord, not that evil thing again...

To tell you the truth, I don't know. All I know is that after weeks of scouring the web, I found it. But then it got deleted, and I quit.

Beam Yosho the Drunkard · 04-16-2005, 05:21 PM

RTP is the "basic" graphics and such. It should be legal to download.

Inferno Dragon · 08-30-2005, 10:05 PM

file planet might have it but don't quote me on that, just run a search for RPG maker 2000 in a search engine and see if anything comes up.

celebi134 · 08-31-2005, 03:47 PM

Search for a place called "Kamain's World" on a search engine. It should have many RPG Maker 2000 programs, including RTP and some patches. It was a big help when I started to use RPG Maker 2k.

***Ace Mercury*** · 08-31-2005, 05:06 PM

A cursory Google search came up with this page; it (should) contain the english RTP (RTPe) and the version 1.32 add-on.

If you're going to be making a game and distributing it though, you're going to want to think about how to de-bloat the file size; the whole she-bang is ~50 megs, if I recall correctly. The actual created game (well, at least the one I made) is less than three megs.

MASALOBOTOMY · 04-13-2006, 08:48 AM

Well, This Site has RPG maker 2000 among other thinngs. (cough, babe of the day, cough)

Sorry for bumping this is just for future refrence...

Cysma · 07-05-2006, 10:22 AM

But the question is: why would you want RPG Maker 2000 when you could have RPG Maker 2003?

***Ace Mercury*** · 07-05-2006, 07:03 PM

Or, RPG Maker XP.

But, hey, whatever works.

Necromancer · 07-06-2006, 06:50 AM

This sounds newbish but...... what is RPG maker? do you make rpgs with it couse it sound interesting and I found some finds of Bearshare.

***Ace Mercury*** · 07-06-2006, 08:35 AM

RPG Maker is an Windows application that helps you create RPGs. I've only used RM2k (err... RPG Maker 2000) to make a playable game, but the same sort of method applies to the entire series. The end result is a 2D console-like RPG, which normally looks like it came straight off of an SNES cart. (Think Lufia, Final Fantasy IV)

You do things such as create maps, use graphics tilesets, use character sprite sets, set up game events, manage item descriptions, manage character stats and qualities, and orchestrate battles. You can import custom graphics, music, sounds, etc., so you can make your own characters and not violate copyrights. There is an RTP (Run-Time Package), which is the default graphics/sounds/music set.

I tell you from experience, it's super-duper fun when you first start out, but it quickly gets very complicated; this is why the majority of the games are amateurish, lack depth, and have less than a couple of hours of playtime. Unless you're meticulous in planning, you'll end up redoing a lot of the work to keep everything in line. Adding a new feature late in the development cycle will take orders of magnitude longer than if you had planned it from the start. If you're gearing to make the game you've always wanted to, start making a simpler game first to get the hang of the controls. (I made a pathetic two-house town, a small world map, and one boss fight, which resulted in teleporting you to a grassy field with a cow.)

As always, Wikipedia has some info on this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rpg_Maker

And, the self-link to my game website I made years and years ago:
http://ca.geocities.com/cyberscythe@.../wildcard.html

Ike · 07-06-2006, 02:00 PM

Just out of curiosity, what are the system requirements for the RPG Maker, does it take up much drive space and how long does it take to download?

***Ace Mercury*** · 07-06-2006, 06:45 PM

The sysreqs are pretty low; my P3 866MHz handles it well enough, so it's got to be less than that. The engine itself is pretty small, less than 10 MB, but the RTP is (apparently) around 15 MB.

Of course, you can always add more and more crap to make it an enormous game. My game, with the necessary RTP files, runs in at around 13 MB.

Ike · 07-07-2006, 01:03 PM

What's the difference between RPG Maker 2000 and RPG Maker 2003?

MASALOBOTOMY · 07-07-2006, 02:57 PM

The battle system, RPG2k has a turn based one, while RPG2k3 has a side view FF10-2 styled battle. (With the turn bars.)

Ike · 07-07-2006, 03:00 PM

That's all? Could you elaborate please?

***Ace Mercury*** · 07-07-2006, 06:37 PM

That's pretty much it. The major change is the battle system. RM2k doesn't have any player sprites; similar to Lufia or Dragon Quest I, II, III. RM2k3 has FF layout, where player sprites are on the right and enemies are on the left.

Otherwise There are tweaks here and there, like a few more event commands, a better item database, and some other stuff I'm forgetting.

RMXP is the newest (IIRC), and allows you to edit a certain portion of the game engine's source code (as opposed to relying only on game scripts). It's pretty hard to do so, though, be cause it's written in Japanese.

Ike · 07-07-2006, 06:45 PM

They actually have an official english version out for RPG Maker XP. It costs 60 dollars, though...

Which one would you recomend, Ace?

Necromancer · 07-08-2006, 10:20 AM

Which would you recomend. I am interested in this product. I have found RPG maker 2000, 2003, and XP. Of those what would be best.

**L007 is Undecided** · 07-08-2006, 12:37 PM

I use RPG Maker on the Playstation. Pretty powerful, although kind of difficult to set up games in the way you want.

The whole concept of the PSX version is that you can create an RPG which, I would guess, is similar to RPG Maker 2000. There's also a built in Anime Maker, which allows you to create your own sprites, movies, etc. The only problem is that unless you have a decent PSX mouse or can actually make sprites with an anolog controller (Which I, sadly, do not have), you're pretty much screwed.

I'm also kind of confused when it comes to utilizing pages in order to create events that only happen once, or even utilize the "Thief" script which I found while scrolling through RPG Maker fansites.

07-06-2006, 08:35 AM	#11
*Ace Mercury* Marshmallow Knight ☆ Supermod Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: Southern Ontario Gender: Posts: 18,967 Thanks: 363 Thanked 1,521 Times in 790 Posts Blog Entries: 1 Points: 100,648.43 Bank: 13,472,049.95 Total Points: 13,572,698.38 Donate	It's okay to be a newb. RPG Maker is an Windows application that helps you create RPGs. I've only used RM2k (err... RPG Maker 2000) to make a playable game, but the same sort of method applies to the entire series. The end result is a 2D console-like RPG, which normally looks like it came straight off of an SNES cart. (Think Lufia, Final Fantasy IV) You do things such as create maps, use graphics tilesets, use character sprite sets, set up game events, manage item descriptions, manage character stats and qualities, and orchestrate battles. You can import custom graphics, music, sounds, etc., so you can make your own characters and not violate copyrights. There is an RTP (Run-Time Package), which is the default graphics/sounds/music set. I tell you from experience, it's super-duper fun when you first start out, but it quickly gets very complicated; this is why the majority of the games are amateurish, lack depth, and have less than a couple of hours of playtime. Unless you're meticulous in planning, you'll end up redoing a lot of the work to keep everything in line. Adding a new feature late in the development cycle will take orders of magnitude longer than if you had planned it from the start. If you're gearing to make the game you've always wanted to, start making a simpler game first to get the hang of the controls. (I made a pathetic two-house town, a small world map, and one boss fight, which resulted in teleporting you to a grassy field with a cow.) As always, Wikipedia has some info on this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rpg_Maker And, the self-link to my game website I made years and years ago: http://ca.geocities.com/cyberscythe@.../wildcard.html

07-08-2006, 12:37 PM	#20
L007 is Undecided Axe Shreddin' Mod Join Date: May 2001 Location: Farmerland. Gender: Posts: 7,383 Thanks: 95 Thanked 310 Times in 180 Posts Points: 3,659.58 Bank: 18,698.70 Total Points: 22,358.28 Donate	I use RPG Maker on the Playstation. Pretty powerful, although kind of difficult to set up games in the way you want. The whole concept of the PSX version is that you can create an RPG which, I would guess, is similar to RPG Maker 2000. There's also a built in Anime Maker, which allows you to create your own sprites, movies, etc. The only problem is that unless you have a decent PSX mouse or can actually make sprites with an anolog controller (Which I, sadly, do not have), you're pretty much screwed. I'm also kind of confused when it comes to utilizing pages in order to create events that only happen once, or even utilize the "Thief" script which I found while scrolling through RPG Maker fansites. __________________ Can I has signature?

03-28-2005, 03:54 PM	#1
Ghost Kitty Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: The place... THE PLACE!!! Gender: Posts: 787 Thanks: 4 Thanked 3 Times in 3 Posts Points: 10,014.87 Bank: 68.67 Total Points: 10,083.55 Donate	I am trying to download RGP Maker 2000 in order to start working on a game I do not want to tell you about (yet ) but whenever I attempt to run it, it says: "Install English RTP" Whats that?

04-16-2005, 05:19 PM	#2
Brooser Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Over yonder points Gender: Posts: 3,213 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts Points: 2,892.00 Bank: 500.00 Total Points: 3,392.00 Donate	Oh lord, not that evil thing again... To tell you the truth, I don't know. All I know is that after weeks of scouring the web, I found it. But then it got deleted, and I quit.

04-16-2005, 05:21 PM	#3
Beam Yosho the Drunkard Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: The oversized rock of Hawaii. Gender: Posts: 5,665 Thanks: 5 Thanked 17 Times in 13 Posts Points: 22,799.39 Bank: 500.00 Total Points: 23,299.39 Donate	RTP is the "basic" graphics and such. It should be legal to download.

08-30-2005, 10:05 PM	#4
Inferno Dragon Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Planet Draco Gender: Posts: 5,945 Thanks: 52 Thanked 32 Times in 25 Posts Points: 33,710.29 Bank: 20,217.77 Total Points: 53,928.07 Donate	file planet might have it but don't quote me on that, just run a search for RPG maker 2000 in a search engine and see if anything comes up.

08-31-2005, 03:47 PM	#5
celebi134 Member Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Tygex World, An Alternate Reality Gender: Posts: 1,829 Thanks: 13 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts Points: 3,406.00 Bank: 510.00 Total Points: 3,916.00 Donate	Search for a place called "Kamain's World" on a search engine. It should have many RPG Maker 2000 programs, including RTP and some patches. It was a big help when I started to use RPG Maker 2k.

08-31-2005, 05:06 PM	#6
*Ace Mercury* Marshmallow Knight ☆ Supermod Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: Southern Ontario Gender: Posts: 18,967 Thanks: 363 Thanked 1,521 Times in 790 Posts Blog Entries: 1 Points: 100,648.43 Bank: 13,472,049.95 Total Points: 13,572,698.38 Donate	A cursory Google search came up with this page; it (should) contain the english RTP (RTPe) and the version 1.32 add-on. If you're going to be making a game and distributing it though, you're going to want to think about how to de-bloat the file size; the whole she-bang is ~50 megs, if I recall correctly. The actual created game (well, at least the one I made) is less than three megs.

04-13-2006, 08:48 AM	#7
MASALOBOTOMY Anime & Cartoon Mod Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: In my pants Gender: Posts: 1,888 Thanks: 667 Thanked 191 Times in 121 Posts Points: 3,266.63 Bank: 7,442.93 Total Points: 10,709.56 Donate	Well, This Site has RPG maker 2000 among other thinngs. (cough, babe of the day, cough) Sorry for bumping this is just for future refrence...

07-05-2006, 10:22 AM	#8
Cysma Member Join Date: Jul 2000 Gender: Posts: 1,441 Thanks: 0 Thanked 2 Times in 2 Posts Points: 702.00 Bank: 5,695.85 Total Points: 6,397.85 Donate	But the question is: why would you want RPG Maker 2000 when you could have RPG Maker 2003?

07-05-2006, 07:03 PM	#9
*Ace Mercury* Marshmallow Knight ☆ Supermod Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: Southern Ontario Gender: Posts: 18,967 Thanks: 363 Thanked 1,521 Times in 790 Posts Blog Entries: 1 Points: 100,648.43 Bank: 13,472,049.95 Total Points: 13,572,698.38 Donate	Or, RPG Maker XP. But, hey, whatever works.

07-06-2006, 06:50 AM	#10
Necromancer Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Mesa, AZ Gender: Posts: 142 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post Points: 1,824.68 Bank: 0.00 Total Points: 1,824.68 Donate	This sounds newbish but...... what is RPG maker? do you make rpgs with it couse it sound interesting and I found some finds of Bearshare.

07-06-2006, 02:00 PM	#12
Ike Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: I don't know. Where do I live? Gender: Posts: 5,667 Thanks: 7 Thanked 162 Times in 114 Posts Points: 7,855.57 Bank: 204,616.45 Total Points: 212,472.02 Donate	Just out of curiosity, what are the system requirements for the RPG Maker, does it take up much drive space and how long does it take to download?

07-06-2006, 06:45 PM	#13
*Ace Mercury* Marshmallow Knight ☆ Supermod Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: Southern Ontario Gender: Posts: 18,967 Thanks: 363 Thanked 1,521 Times in 790 Posts Blog Entries: 1 Points: 100,648.43 Bank: 13,472,049.95 Total Points: 13,572,698.38 Donate	The sysreqs are pretty low; my P3 866MHz handles it well enough, so it's got to be less than that. The engine itself is pretty small, less than 10 MB, but the RTP is (apparently) around 15 MB. Of course, you can always add more and more crap to make it an enormous game. My game, with the necessary RTP files, runs in at around 13 MB.

07-07-2006, 01:03 PM	#14
Ike Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: I don't know. Where do I live? Gender: Posts: 5,667 Thanks: 7 Thanked 162 Times in 114 Posts Points: 7,855.57 Bank: 204,616.45 Total Points: 212,472.02 Donate	What's the difference between RPG Maker 2000 and RPG Maker 2003?

07-07-2006, 02:57 PM	#15
MASALOBOTOMY Anime & Cartoon Mod Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: In my pants Gender: Posts: 1,888 Thanks: 667 Thanked 191 Times in 121 Posts Points: 3,266.63 Bank: 7,442.93 Total Points: 10,709.56 Donate	The battle system, RPG2k has a turn based one, while RPG2k3 has a side view FF10-2 styled battle. (With the turn bars.)

07-07-2006, 03:00 PM	#16
Ike Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: I don't know. Where do I live? Gender: Posts: 5,667 Thanks: 7 Thanked 162 Times in 114 Posts Points: 7,855.57 Bank: 204,616.45 Total Points: 212,472.02 Donate	That's all? Could you elaborate please?

07-07-2006, 06:37 PM	#17
*Ace Mercury* Marshmallow Knight ☆ Supermod Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: Southern Ontario Gender: Posts: 18,967 Thanks: 363 Thanked 1,521 Times in 790 Posts Blog Entries: 1 Points: 100,648.43 Bank: 13,472,049.95 Total Points: 13,572,698.38 Donate	That's pretty much it. The major change is the battle system. RM2k doesn't have any player sprites; similar to Lufia or Dragon Quest I, II, III. RM2k3 has FF layout, where player sprites are on the right and enemies are on the left. Otherwise There are tweaks here and there, like a few more event commands, a better item database, and some other stuff I'm forgetting. RMXP is the newest (IIRC), and allows you to edit a certain portion of the game engine's source code (as opposed to relying only on game scripts). It's pretty hard to do so, though, be cause it's written in Japanese.

07-07-2006, 06:45 PM	#18
Ike Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: I don't know. Where do I live? Gender: Posts: 5,667 Thanks: 7 Thanked 162 Times in 114 Posts Points: 7,855.57 Bank: 204,616.45 Total Points: 212,472.02 Donate	They actually have an official english version out for RPG Maker XP. It costs 60 dollars, though... Which one would you recomend, Ace?

07-08-2006, 10:20 AM	#19
Necromancer Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Mesa, AZ Gender: Posts: 142 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post Points: 1,824.68 Bank: 0.00 Total Points: 1,824.68 Donate	Which would you recomend. I am interested in this product. I have found RPG maker 2000, 2003, and XP. Of those what would be best.